Madonna, whose birth name is Madonna Louise Ciccone, is an influential and best-selling recording artist whose album sales have exceeded 200 million copies worldwide and who has a net worth of $650 million. Born in Bay City, Michigan on August 16, 1958, she moved to Rochester Hills, Michigan with her family and spent her youth in that small city. Madonna moved to New York in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. While there, she began a career as a professional singer and recorded her first hit album, Like a Virgin, in 1984. Where does Madonna live? Madonna's House She had a second hit album, True Blue, in 1986. These two hit albums catapulted her to superstardom and, around the same time, Madonna landed her first acting role in the movie, Desperately Seeking Susan. Madonna has frequently operated "on the edges," pushing sex in her recordings and in a coffee table book she wrote that was actually called Sex. The Recording Industry Association of America has ranked Madonna as the Best-Selling Female Rock Artists of the 20th century. She is also the Number Two best-selling female artist in the U.S. with 64 million certified albums sold. Guinness World Records has labeled her the most successful female artist of all time.

The protesters marching for Black Lives Matter in London were in for a surprise on Saturday as they were joined by Madonna, who turned up to support. Pictures and videos were shared on social media ...